Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

Bacchic Mysteries. 169cups sacred to Bacchus, they placed onetowards the east, and the other towards thewest. And the first of these was doubtless,according to the interpretation of Proclus,sacred to the earth, and symbolical of thesoul proceeding from an orbicular figure,divine form, into a conical defluxion and terrene situation :or* but the other was sacred tothe soul, and symbolical of its celestial origin;since our intellect is the legitimate progenyof Bacchus.nified by the positionsels; for, accordingAnd this too was occultly sigof the earthen vesto a mundane distribution of the divinities, the eastern center ofthe universe, which is analogous to fire,belongs to Jupiter, who likewise governs thefixed and inerratic sphere ;and the westernto Pluto, who governs the earth, becausethe west is allied to earth on account ofits dark and nocturnal nature.f ./Again, accordingto Clemens Alexandrinus,the following confession was made by*An orbicular figure symbolized the maternal, and a cone themasculine divine Energy,t PROCLUS: Theology of Plato, book vi. c. 10.